Smart Grid encourages consumers to modify their behaviour and to be more active. Smart Grid enables consumers to participate in Demand Response (DR). Demand Response means that consumers modify the energy usage pattern of their building to even the load on distribution network. This helps distribution system operators to optimize their network. One aim of Smart Grid is to enable building owners to sell their local small-scale energy production.
In this thesis, the main systems of commercial buildings were analyzed to find out the potential for DR-potential of different systems. The most promising systems were heating and cooling systems, charging system of electrical cars and emergency power systems.
In the future, different kinds of energy storages can be used to increase DR-potential of a building, efficiency of small-scale energy production and power quality. Currently there is not enough practical experiences on the use of energy storages, so large scale implementation is not viable at the moment.